Bug 146704

Summary: CAN-2005-0100 Arbitrary code execution in *emacs*
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: xemacsAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team, srevivo
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Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050210
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Proposed patch for this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-31 21:18:50 UTC
Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the
movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor.  Via connecting to a
malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the
privileges of group mail (or worse, depending on the permissions of
the movemail binary).

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-31 21:18:50 UTC
Created attachment 110461 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-01-31 21:20:42 UTC
This issue should also affects RHEL2.1.

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-07 09:19:17 UTC
removing embargo
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-announce/200502/msg00001.html

Comment 6 Josh Bressers 2005-02-10 17:08:04 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-134.html